SLR: When did you first start writing stories? When did you know you wanted to spend you life writing? DA: My father fought a boxing chimpanzee when I was two years old. I heard that story told over and over from the time it happened, and by the time I was four, I was telling […]
Archives for May 2009
Sufficient Grace by Darnell Arnoult
May 14, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Women hear voices. Some are the voices of those that they love and care for, some are voices that come from the mouths of men they’ve met only once in their lives and some are voices that can only be described as divine. Reading Darnell Arnoult’s “Sufficient Grace” reminded me that most of the women […]
Penumbra by Carolyn Hines
May 14, 2009 by Leave a Comment
In the 1950s in Drexel, Mississippi, the color barrier remains rigidly in place with each race understanding their sphere. Jade Dupree is raised by her black adopted parents, Jonah and Ruth, although her biological mother is the very socially powerful white Lucille. Jade’s half sister Marlena is married to the wealthiest and most powerful figures […]
The Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn Dominque
May 14, 2009 by 1 Comment
In late 1920s New Orleans, while at college Raziela “Razi” Nolan and Andrew O’Connell share a heated romance. In 1929 she slips at a poolside and dies. However, Razi who wanted to live forever finds herself at THE MERCY OF THIN AIR, a gray world in between the mortal plane and the afterlife. She can […]
Dancing by the River by Marlin Barton
May 13, 2009 by Leave a Comment
If the only subjects worthy of a writer’s labor concern certain universal truths, which William Faulkner called the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself, then Marlin Barton has achieved a noble goal with his splendid second collection of stories, “Dancing by the River.” Most of the stories center around several generations of […]